Search Results for: American

G. J. A. O’Toole

…Espionage; Honorable Treachery, a history of American intelligence; The Spanish War: An American Epic, a Pulitzer Prize nominee; and An Agent on the Other Side, a novel. He died at…

Carl Smith

Carl Smith is Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Northwestern University. His books include Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920;…

Irving Feldman

…Best American Poetry (1995, 1997, 1998 ), and The Best of the Best American Poetry. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo….

Neighbors and Other Stories

by Diane Oliver

…as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature, with an introduction by Tayari Jones…

Gail Buckley

Gail Lumet Buckley is the author of the national bestsellers American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm, and The Hornes: An American

Roxane Gay

…stories and essays can be found in Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing…

Steve Rushin

…fans. Rushin has since been nominated for four National Magazine Awards. His work has appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American

Margaret Wrinkle

Born and raised in Birmingham Alabama, Margaret Wrinkle is a writer, filmmaker, educator and visual artist. Her debut novel, Wash, reexamines American slavery in ways that challenge contemporary assumptions about race, power, history and…

Martin Lee

…of the U.S.” The American Journal of Psychiatry said the book contained “a wealth of historical, sociological, and political information.” The San Francisco Chronicle called it “a generalist’s history that…

Emily Raboteau

Emily Raboteau is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Professor’s Daughter. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best African American Fiction, The Guardian,…